A User's Guide to the Brain

The human brain is responsible for coordinating and executing a vast range of functions, from our ability to perceive and attend to our processing of emotion and thought. Get an introduction to the central nervous system in this workshop. Discover how the brain is functionally organized and where it stores memory. Examine where emotions such as happiness or sadness reside in the brain. Investigate whether the field of neuroscience can make sense of disorders such as attention-deficit disorder, Alzheimer’s disease and depression.